ArticleInfection & chemotherapy2025
Antimicrobial Prescribing Patterns in Russian Outpatients in 2024: Results of the Global-PPS Project.
Article in Infection & chemotherapy, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
24 authors.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundDetailed surveillance of antimicrobials' use in the community is an essential strategy to control their overuse and misuse. This study aimed to evaluate prescribing patterns of antimicrobials in Russian outpatients in 2024 and quantify the prescribing in relation to quality indicators. MATERIALS AND
methodsA point prevalence study was conducted during January-April 2024 in 14 healthcare facilities in 11 Russian cities (Chelyabinsk, Ekaterinburg, Krasnoyarsk, Moscow, Novokuznetsk, Saratov, Smolensk, Ulan-Ude, Vladivostok, Yakutsk, and Yaroslavl) in accordance with the outpatient protocol of Global-PPS project. Detailed data on antimicrobials, age, gender, and drug indications were collected for each outpatient receiving at least one agent for prophylaxis or treatment.
resultsA total of 5,084 outpatients from 149 units were surveyed, of which 487 (9.6%) received at least one antimicrobial agent. The highest rates of antimicrobial prescribing were observed at upper respiratory tract (33.2%), gastroenterology (22.6%), hematology (13.6%), ear nose and throat (13.5%), and gynecology units (11.6%). Antibacterials accounted for 63.4% of antimicrobials on average, followed by antivirals (35.4%). Penicillins (41.4%), for the most part penicillin/beta-lactamase inhibitor combinations (30.1%), cephalosporins (18.3%), including third generation (17.7%), fluoroquinolones (16.1%), and macrolides (11.5%) were the top classes of antibiotics prescribed. Umifenovir (23.8%) and amoxicillin/clavulanic acid (19.0%) were the top antimicrobials prescribed. The administered antibacterials were almost equally distributed between "access" (46.5%) and "watch" (53.5%) AWaRe groups. On average, choice of antimicrobials followed the national guidelines issued by the Ministry of Health in 73.2% of cases.
conclusionThe pooled rates of antimicrobial prescribing in outpatient settings was 9.6% with the substantial differences in patterns of consumption overall and among the units of different types. Broad-spectrum antibacterials such as penicillin/beta-lactamase inhibitor combinations, III-IV generation cephalosporins, fluoroquinolones, and macrolides together amounted to 48% of prescriptions. Common concerns in antimicrobial drug usage included low guidelines compliance and low rate of "access" group antibacterials.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.